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In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions of flying machines that are generally called Vimanas. India's national epic, The
Mahabharata, is a poem of vast length and complexity. There are no physical remains of ancient Indian aircraft technology but references to
ancient flying machines are commonplace in the ancient Indian texts. Several popular ancient epics describe their use in warfare. Depending on
one's point of view, either it contains some of the earliest known science fiction, or it records conflict between beings with weapons as powerful
and advanced as anything used today.

"European scholarship regards human civilization as a recent progression starting yesterday with the Fiji islander, and ending today
with Rockefeller, conceiving ancient culture as necessarily half savage culture." It is a superstition of modern thought that the march
of knowledge has always been linear." "Our vision of "prehistory" is terribly inadequate. We have not yet rid our minds from the hold
of a one-and-only God or one-and-only Book, and now a one-and-only Science."

- wrote Shri Aurobindo Ghosh, (1872-1950) most original philosopher of modern India.

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
"Dont' let your minds be cluttered up with the prevailing doctrine." - Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)

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Introduction
INDIA HAD A SUPERIOR CIVILIZATION
ANCIENT WRITINGS TELL OF UFO VISIT IN 4,000 B.C.

Fly the Friendly skies in Air India Vimanas

Flying machines in old Indian Sanskrit texts

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Introduction:

The mention of airplanes is found many times throughout Vedic literature, including the following verse from the Yujur-Veda describing the
movement of such machines:

"O royal skilled engineer, construct sea-boats, propelled on water by our experts, and
airplanes, moving and flying upward, after the clouds that reside in the mid-region, that fly as
the boats move on the sea, that fly high over and below the watery clouds. Be thou, thereby,
prosperous in this world created by the Omnipresent God, and flier in both air and lightening."
Yajur Veda, 10.19) (Please refer to the Chapter ' Advanced Concept in Hinduism)

The Rg Veda, the oldest document of the human race includes references to the
following modes of transportation:

Jalayan - a vehicle designed to operate in air and water. (Rig Veda 6.58.3)
Kaara- Kaara- a vehicle that operates on ground and in water. (Rig Veda 9.14.1)
Tritala- Tritala- a vehicle consisting of three stories. (Rig Veda 3.14.1)
Trichakra Ratha - Trichakra Ratha - a three-wheeled vehicle designed to operate in the air.
(Rig Veda 4.36.1)
Vaayu Ratha- Vaayu Ratha- a gas or wind-powered chariot. (Rig Veda 5.41.6)
Vidyut Ratha- Vidyut Ratha- a vehicle that operates on power. (Rig Veda 3.14.1)

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Here is a survey of some fascinating articles and quotes:

"One time while King Citaketu was traveling in outer space on a brilliantly effulgent airplane given to him by Lord Vishnu, he saw Lord Siva..."
"The arrows released by Lord Siva appeared like fiery beams emanating from the sun globe and covered the three residential airplanes, which
could then no longer be seen."
Srimad Bhagavatam, Sixth Canto, Part 3

"The so-called ‘Rama Empire’ of Northern India and

Pakistan developed at least fifteen thousand years
ago on the Indian sub-continent and was a nation of
many large, sophisticated cities, many of which are
still to be found in the deserts of Pakistan, northern,
and western India. Rama...was ruled by ‘enlightened
Priest-Kings’ who governed the cities. The seven
greatest capital cities of Rama were known in
classical Hindu texts as ‘The Seven Rishi Cities’.
According to ancient Indian texts, the people had
flying machines which were called ‘vimanas’. The
ancient Indian epic describes a vimana as a double-
deck, circular aircraft with portholes and a dome,
much as we would imagine a flying saucer. It flew
with the "speed of the wind" and gave forth a
‘melodious sound’. There were at least four different
types of vimanas; some saucer shaped, others like
long cylinders (‘cigar shaped airships’)."
(source: D. Hatcher Childress, "Ancient Indian
Aircraft Technology" In The Anti-Gravity
Handbook )

" An aerial chariot, the Pushpaka, conveys many

people to the capital of Ayodhya. The sky is full of
stupendous flying-machines, dark as night,but
picked out by lights with a yellowish glare."

- Mahavira of Bhavabhuti (A Jain text of the eighth century culled from older texts and traditions)

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"The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems, thought to be the oldest of all the Indian texts, describe
vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the ‘ahnihotra-vimana’ with two engines, the
‘elephant-vimana’ with more engines, and other types named after the kingfisher, ibis and
other animals."

(source: D. Hatcher Childress, "Ancient Indian Aircraft Technology" In The Anti-Gravity

Handbook )

"Now Vata’s chariot’s greatness! Breaking goes it, And Thunderous is its noise, To heaven it
touches, Makes light lurid [a red fiery glare], and whirls dust upon the earth."
Rig-Veda (Vata is the Aryan god of wind.)
In the Vedic literature of India, there are many descriptions of flying machines that are
generally called vimanas. These fall into two categories: (1) manmade craft that resemble airplanes and fly with the aid of birdlike wings, and (2)
unstreamlined structures that fly in a mysterious manner and are generally not made by human beings. The machines in category (1) are
described mainly in medieval, secular Sanskrit works dealing with architecture, automata, military siege engines, and other mechanical
contrivances. Those in category (2) are described in ancient works such as the Rg Veda, the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Puranas,
and they have many features reminiscent of UFOs." "There are ancient Indian accounts of manmade wooden vehicles that flew with wings in the
manner of modern airplanes. Although these wooden vehicles were also called vimanas, most vimanas were not at all like airplanes. The more
typical vimanas had flight characteristics resembling those reported for UFOs, and the being associated with them were said to possess powers
similar to those presently ascribed to UFO entities. An interesting example of a vimana is the flying machine which Salva, an ancient Indian king,
acquired from Maya Danava, an inhabitant of a planetary system called Taltala."
Richard L. Thompson, Alien Identities

"The cruel Salva had come mounted on the Saubha chariot that can go anywhere, and from it he killed many valiant Vrishni youths and evilly
devastated all the city parks."
The Mahabharata

There is this account by the hero Krishna that is suggestive of more modern weapons. As he takes to the
skies in pursuit of Salva: "His Saubha clung to the sky at a league’s length...He threw at me rockets,
missiles, spears, spikes, battle-axes, three-bladed javelins, flame-throwers, without pausing....The
sky...seemed to hold a hundred suns, a hundred moons...and a hundred myriad stars. Neither day nor night
could be made out, or the points of compass."
"The airplane occupied by Salva was very mysterious. It was so extraordinary that sometimes many
airplanes would appear to be in the sky, and sometimes there were apparently none. Sometimes the plane
was visible and sometimes not visible, and the warriors of the Yadu dynasty were puzzled about the
whereabouts of the peculiar airplane. Sometimes they would see the airplane on the ground, sometimes
flying in the sky, sometimes resting on the peak of a hill and sometimes floating on the water. The wonderful
airplane flew in the sky like a whirling firebrand - it was not steady even for a moment."
Bhaktivedanta, Swami Prabhupada, Krsna
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INDIA HAD A SUPERIOR CIVILIZATION

BANGALORE, OCTOBER 11
http://www.ufobbs.com/txt3/2644.ufo

India may have had a superior civilization with possible contacts with extraterrestrial visitors, and the flying devices called 'Vimanas'
described in ancient Indian texts may underline their possible connections with today's aerospace technology, an Italian scientist
told the World Space Conference here today. Dr. Roberto Pinotti asked the delegates to examine in detail the Hindu texts
instead of dismissing 'all the Vimana descriptions and traditions as mere myth.' "The importance of such studies and
investigations could prove to be shocking for today's man because the existence of flying devices beyond mythology can only be
explained with a forgotten superior civilization on earth," he said. Pointing out that Indian Gods and heroes fought in the skies
using piloted vehicles with terrible weapons.
Dr. Pinotti said they were similar to modern jet propelled flying machines. 32 secrets: He said certain descriptions of the
Vimanas seemed 'too detailed and technical in nature to be labeled as myth.' He cited various texts to show there were 32 secrets relating to the
operation of Vimanas, some of which could be compared to modern day use of radar, solar energy and photography. Quoting from 'Vymanika
Shastra' he said the ancient flying devices of India were made from special heat absorbing metals named 'Somaka, Soundalike and
Mourthwika.' He said the text also discussed the seven kinds of mirror and lenses installed aboard for defensive and offensive uses. The
so-called 'Pinjula Mirror' offered a sort of 'visual shield' preventing the pilots from being blinded by 'evil rays' and the weapon 'Marika' used to
shoot enemy aircraft 'does not seem too different from what we today called laser technology,' he said.

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According to the Italian expert, the 'principles of

Page 1 propulsion as far as the descriptions
were concerned, might be defined as electrical
and chemical but solar energy was also
involved. For instance, the 'Tripura Vimana'
mentioned in 'Vymanika Shastra' was a large
craft operated by 'motive power generated by
solar rays,' Dr. Pinotti said, adding 'its
elongated form was surely much closer to that
of a modern blimp.' Sophisticated design:
According to Dr. Pinotti, the huge 'Shakuna
Vimana' described in the text 'might be defined
as a cross between a plane and a rocket of our
times and its design might remind one of
today's space shuttle.' 'Surely, it expresses the
most complex and sophisticated aeronautical
design among all the other descriptions of
Vimanas mentioned in the 'Vymanika Shastra,'
he said.

He described the author of the treatise

'Vymanika Shastra' as a man 'attempting to
explain an advanced technology.' Dr. Pinotti,
who has made an exhaustive study of the
history of Indian astronautics, said another text,
'Samarangana Sutradhara' had 230 stanzas
devoted to the principles of building Vimanas
and their use in peace and war. He said
ancient Aryans knew the use of the element
'fire' as could be seen from their 'Astra'
weapons that included Soposamhara (flame
belching missile), Prasvapna (which caused
sleep) and four kinds of Agni Astras that
traveled in sheets of flame and produced
thunder. He said the car that was supposed to go up to Suryamandal (solar system) and the Naksatramandala (stellar system) cannot be
dismissed as a myth because of the 'technical nature' of its description. Dr. Pinotti said depictions of space travel, total destruction by incredible
weapons and the fact that Vimanas resembled modern unidentified flying objects would suggest that India had a 'superior but forgotten
civilization.' 'In the light of this, we think it will be better to examine the Hindu texts' and subject the descriptive models of Vimanas to more
scientific scrutiny,' he said.- Jerry W. Decker.........Ron Barker...........Chuck Henderson - Vangard Sciences/KeelyNet
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ANCIENT WRITINGS TELL OF UFO VISIT IN 4,000 B.C.

Contributed by John Burrows
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India, according to Dr.V. Raghavan, retired head of the Sanskrit department of

India`s pretigious University of Madras, was alone in playing host to
extraterrestrials in prehistory. Dr. Raghavan contends that centuries-old
documents in Sanskrit (the classical language of India and Hinduism) prove that
aliens from outer space visited his nation. "Fifty years of researching this ancient
works convinces me that there are livings beings on other planets, and that they
visited earth as far back as4,000 B.C., " The scholar says. "There is a just a
mass of fascinating information about flying machines, even fantastic science
fiction weapons, that can be found in translations of the Vedas (scriptures),
Indian epics, and other ancient Sanskrit text. "In the Mahabharata (writings),
there is notion of divine lighting and ray weapons, even a kind of hypnotic
weapon. And in the Ramayana (writings), there is a description of Vimanas, or
flying machines, that navigated at great heights with the aid of quicksilver and a
great propulsive wind. "These were space vehicles similar to the so-called flying
saucers reported throughout the world today.
The Ramayana even describes a beautiful chariot which 'arrived shining, a
wonderful divine car that sped through the air'. In another passage, there is
mention of a chariot being seen 'sailing overhead like a moon.' "The references
in the Mahabharata are no less astounding: `

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At Rama`s behest, the magnificent chariot rose up to a

mountain of cloud with a tremendous din.` Another
passage reads: `Bhima flew with his Vimana on an
enormous ray which was as brilliant as the sun and
made a noise like the thunder of a storm." In the ancient
Vymanka-Shastra (science of aeronautics), there is a
description of a Vimana: "An apparatus which can go by
its own force, from one place to place or globe to
globe." Dr. Raghavan points out, "The text`s revelations
become even more astounding. Thirty-one parts-of
which the machine consists-are described, including a
photographing mirror underneath. The text also
enumerates 16 kinds of metal that are needed to
construct the flying vehicle: `Metals suitable, lighare 16
kinds. `But only three of them are known to us today.
The rest remain untranslatable." Another authority who agrees with Dr. Raghavan`s interpretations is Dr. A.V. Krishna Murty, professor of
aeronautics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. "It is true," Dr. Krishna Murty says, "that the ancient Indian Vedas and other text refer
to aeronautics, spaceships, flying machines, ancient astronauts. "A study of the Sanskrit texts has convinced me that ancient India did know the
secret of building flying machines-and that those machines were patterned after spaceships coming from other planets."

The Vedic traditions of India tell us that we are now in the Fourth Age of mankind. The Vedas call them the "The Golden Age", "The Silver Age",
and "The Bronze Age" and we are now, according to their scriptures in the "The Iron Age". As we approach the end of the 20th century both
Native Americans, Mayans, and Incans, prophecies claim that we are coming to the end of an age. Sanskrit texts are filled with references to
Gods who fought battles in the sky using Vihmanas equipped with weapons as deadly as any we can deploy in these more enlightened times.

For example, there is a passage in the Ramayana which reads:

The Puspaka car that resembles the Sun and belongs to my brother was brought by the powerful Ravan; that
aerial and excellent car going everywhere at will.... that car resembling a bright cloud in the sky.".. and the
King [Rama] got in, and the excellent car at the command of the Raghira, rose up into the higher
atmosphere."

In the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian poem of enormous length, we learn that an individual named Asura Maya had
a Vimana measuring twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels. The poem is a veritable gold mine of information relating to
conflicts between gods who settled their differences apparently using weapons as lethal as the ones we are capable of deploying.

Apart from 'blazing missiles', the poem records the use of other deadly weapons. 'Indra's Dart' operated via a circular 'reflector'. When switched
on, it produced a 'shaft of light' which, when focused on any target, immediately 'consumed it with
its power'. In one particular exchange, the hero, Krishna, is pursuing his enemy, Salva, in the sky,
when Salva's Vimana, the Saubha is made invisiblein some way. Undeterred, Krishna immediately
fires off a special weapon: 'I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound'.

Many other terrible weapons are described, quite matter of factly, in the Mahabharata, but the
most fearsome of all is the one used against the Vrishis. The narrative records:

Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis
and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An
incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its
splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death
which reduced to ashesthe entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas.

It is important to note, that these kinds of records are not isolated. They can be cross-correlated
with similar reports in other ancient civilizations.

The after-affects of this Iron Thunderbolt have anonymously recognizable ring. Apparently, those
killed by it were so burnt that their corpses were unidentifiable. The survivors fared little ether, as it
caused their hair and nails to fall out. Perhaps the most disturbing and challenging, information
about these allegedly mythical Vimanas in the ancient records is that there are some matter-of-fact records, describing how to build one. In their
way, the instructions are quite precise. In the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara, it is written:

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Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great
flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with
its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in
the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting
inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the
Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move
slanting forwards and backwards. With the help of the machines human
beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth.

The Hakatha (Laws of the Babylonians) states quite unambiguously: The

privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The knowledge of flight is
among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from 'those from upon high'.
We received it from them as a means of saving many lives.

More fantastic still is the information given in the ancient Chaldean work, The
Sifrala, which contains over one hundred pages of technical details on building
a flying machine. It contains words which translate as graphite rod, copper
coils, crystal indicator, vibrating spheres, stable angles, etc. 'Ancient Indian
Aircraft Technology' From The Anti-Gravity Handbook by D. Hatcher
Childress.
Many researchers into the UFO enigma tend to overlook a very important fact. While it assumed that most flying saucers are of alien, or perhaps
Governmental Military origin, another possible origin of UFOs is ancient India and Atlantis. What we know about ancient Indian flying vehicles
comes from ancient Indian sources; written texts that have come down to us through the centuries. There is no doubt that most of these texts
are authentic; many arethe well known ancient Indian Epics themselves, and there are literally hundreds of them. Most of them have not even
been translated into English yet from the old sanskrit.

The Indian Emperor Ashoka started a "Secret Society of the Nine Unknown Men": great Indian scientists who were supposed to
catalogue the many sciences. Ashoka kept their work secret because he was afraid that the advanced science catalogued by
these men, culled from ancient Indian sources, would be used for the evil purpose of war, which Ashoka was strongly against,
having beenconverted to Buddhism after defeating a rival army in a bloody battle. The"Nine Unknown Men" wrote a total of nine
books, presumably one each. Book number was "The Secrets of Gravitation!" This book, known to historians, but not actually
seen by them dealt chiefly with "gravity control." It is presumably still around somewhere, kept in a secret library in India, Tibet or
else where (perhaps even in North America somewhere). One can certainly understand Ashoka's reasoning for wanting to keep
such knowledge a secret, assuming it exists. Ashoka was also aware of devastating wars using such advanced vehicles and
other "futuristic weapons" that had destroyed the ancient Indian "Rama Empire" several thousand years before.

Only a few years ago, the Chinese discovered some Sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet and sent them to the University of
Chandrigarh to be translated. Dr. Ruth Reyna of the University said recently that the documents contain directions for building
interstellar spaceships! Their method of propulsion, she said, was "anti- gravitational" and was based upon a system analogous
to that of "laghima," the unknown power of the ego existing in man's physiological makeup, "a centrifugal force strong enough
tocounteract all gravitational pull." According to Hindu Yogis, it is this "laghima" which enables a person to levitate. Dr. Reyna said that on board
these machines, which were called "Astras" by the text, the ancient Indians could have sent a detachment of
men onto any planet,according to the document, which is thought to be thousands of years old. Themanuscripts
were also said to reveal the secret of "antima"; "the cap ofinvisibility" and "garima"; "how to become as heavy as
a mountain of lead."Naturally, Indian scientists did not take the texts very seriously, but thenbecame more
positive about the value of them when the Chinese announced that they were including certain parts of the data
for study in their spaceprogram! This was one of the first instances of a government admitting to be researching
anti-gravity. The manuscripts did not say definitely that interplanetary travel was evermade but did mention, of all
things, a planned trip to the Moon, though it is not clear whether this trip was actually carried out.

However, one of the great Indian epics,the Ramayana, does have a highly detailed story in it of atrip to the moon
in a Vihmana (or "Astra"), and in fact details a battle on themoon with an "Asvin" (or Atlantean") airship. This is
but a small bit ofrecent evidence of anti-gravity and aerospace technology used by Indians. To really understand
the technology, we must go much further back in time. The so-called "Rama Empire" of Northern India and
Pakistan developed at leastfifteen thousand years ago on the Indian subcontinent and was a nation of manylarge, sophisticated cities, many of
which are still to be found in the deserts of Pakistan, northern, and western India. Rama existed, apparently, parallel to the Atlantean civilization
in the mid- Atlantic Ocean, and wasruled by "enlightened Priest-Kings" who governed the cities.

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The seven greatest capital cities of Rama were known in classical Hindu texts as The
Seven Rishi Cities According to ancient Indian texts, the people had flying machines which
were called "Vimanas." The ancient Indian epic describes a Vimana as a double deck,
circular aircraft with portholes and a dome, much as we would imagine a flying saucer. It
flew with the "speed of the wind" and gave forth a "melodious sound." There were at least
four different types ofVimanas; some saucer shaped, others like long cylinders ("cigar
shaped airships").
The ancient Indian texts on Vimanas are so numerous, it would take volumes to relate what
they had to say. The ancient Indians, who manufactured these ships themselves, wrote
entire flight manuals on the control of the various types of Vimanas, many of which are still
in existence, and some have even been translated into English. The Samara Sutradhara is
a scientific treatise dealing with every possible angle of air travel in a Vimana.

There are 230 stanzas dealing with the construction, take-off, cruising for thousand of miles,
normal and forced landings, and even possible collisions with birds. In 1875, the Vaimanika
Sastra, a fourth century B.C. text written by Bharadvajy the Wise, using even older texts as
his source, was rediscovered in a temple in India. It dealt with the operation of Vimanas and
included information on the steering, precautions for long flights, protection of the airships
from storms and lightning and how to switch the drive to "solar energy" from a free energy
source which sounds like "anti-gravity."
The Vaimanika Sastra (or Vymaanika-Shaastra) has eight chapters with diagrams,
describing three types of aircraft, including apparatuses that could neither catch on fire nor
break. It also mentions 31 essential parts of these vehicles and 16 materials from which
they are constructed, which absorb light and heat; for which reason they were considered
suitable for the construction of Vimanas. This document has been translated into English
and is available by writing the publisher:
VYMAANIDASHAASTRA AERONAUTICS by Maharishi Bharadwaaja, translated into
English and edited, printed and published by Mr. G. R.Josyer, Mysore, India, 1979.

Mr. Josyer is the director of the International Academy of Sanskrit Investigation, located in Mysore. There seems to be no doubt that Vimanas
were powered by some sort of "anti-gravity." Vimanas took off vertically, and were capable of hovering in the sky, like a modern helicopter or
dirigible.

Bharadvajy the Wise refers to no less than seventy authorities and 10 experts of air travel in
antiquity. These sources are now lost. Vimanas were kept in a Vimana Griha, a kind of hanger, and
were sometimes said to be propelled by a yellowish-white liquid, and sometimes by some sort of
mercury compound, though writers seem confused in this matter. It is most likely that the later writers
on Vimanas, wrote as observers and from earlier texts, and were understandably confused on the
principle of their propulsion. The "yellowish- white liquid" sounds suspiciously like gasoline, and
perhaps Vimanas had a number of different propulsion sources, including combustion engines and
even "pulse-jet" engines. It is interesting to note, that the Nazis developed the first practical pulse-jet
engines for their V-8 rocket "buzz bombs."

Hitler and the Nazi staff were exceptionally interested in ancient India and Tibet and sent expeditions
to both these places yearly, starting in the 30's, in order to gather esoteric evidence that they did so,
and perhaps it was from these people that the Nazis gained some of their scientific information!
According to the Dronaparva, part of the Mahabarata, and the Ramayana, one Vimana described
was shaped like a sphere and born along at great speed on a mighty wind generated by mercury. It
moved like a UFO, going up, down, backwards and forwards as the pilot desired. In another Indian
source, the Samar, Vimanas were "iron machines, well-knit and smooth, with a charge of mercury
that shot out of the back in the form of a roaring flame."

Another work called the Samaranganasutradhara describes how the vehicles were constructed. It is
possible that mercury did have something to do with the propulsion, or more possibly, with the
guidance system. Curiously, Soviet scientists have discovered what they call "age old instruments
used in navigating cosmic vehicles" in caves in Turkestan and the Gobi Desert. The "devices" are
hemispherical objects of glass or porcelain, ending in a cone with a drop of mercury inside. It is
evident that ancient Indians flew around in these vehicles, all over Asia, to Atlantis presumably; and
even, apparently, to South America.

Writing found at Mohenjodaro in Pakistan (presumed to be one of the "Seven Rishi Cities of the Rama Empire" and
still un deciphered, has also been found in one other place in the world: Easter Island! Writing on Easter Island, called
Rongo-Rongo writing, is also un deciphered, and is uncannily similar to the Mohenjodaro script. Was Easter Island an
air base for the Rama Empire's Vimana route? (At the Mohenjo- Daro Vimana-drome, as the passenger walks down
the concourse, he hears the sweet, melodic sound of the announcer over the loud speaker," Rama Airways flight
number seven for Bali, Easter Island, Nazca, and Atlantis is now ready for boarding. Passengers please proceed to
gate number..") in Tibet, no small distance, and speaks of the "fiery chariot" thus: "Bhima flew along in his car,
resplendent as the sun and loud as thunder... The flying chariot shone like a flame in the night sky of summer... it swept
by like a comet... It was as if two suns were shining. Then the chariot rose up and all the heaven brightened." In the
Mahavira of Bhavabhuti, a Jain text of the eighth century culled from older texts and traditions, we read: "An aerial
chariot, the Pushpaka, conveysmany people to the capital of Ayodhya.

The sky is full of stupendousflying-machines, dark as night,but picked out by lights with a yellowishglare." The Vedas, ancient Hindu poems,
thought to be the oldest of all theIndian texts, describe Vimanas of various shapes and sizes: the "ahnihotravimana" with two engines,

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the"elephant-vimana" with more engines, and other types named after the kingfisher, ibis and other animals. Unfortunately, Vimanas, like most
scientific discoveries, were ultimately used for war. Atlanteans used their flying machines, "Vailixi," a similar type of aircraft, to literally try and
subjugate the world, it would seem, if Indiantexts are to be believed.

The Atlanteans, known as "Asvins" in the Indian writings, were apparently

even more advanced technologically than the Indians, and certainly of a
more war-like temperament. Although no ancient texts on Atlantean Vailixi
are known to exist, some information has come down through esoteric,
"occult" sources which describe their flying machines. Similar, if not identical
to Vimanas, Vailixi were generally "cigar shaped" and had the capability of
manoeuvering underwater as well as in the atmosphere or even outer
space. Other vehicles, like Vimanas, were saucer shaped, and could
apparently also be submerged.

According to Eklal Kueshana, author of "The Ultimate Frontier," in an

article he wrote in 1966:

Vailixi were first developed in Atlantis 20,000 years ago, and the most
common ones are "saucer shaped of generally trapezoidal cross-
section with three hemispherical engine pods on the underside. They
use a mechanical antigravity device driven by engines developing
approximately 80,000 horse power. The Ramayana, Mahabharata and other texts speak of the hideous war that took place, some ten or
twelve thousand years ago between Atlantis and Rama using weapons of destruction that could not be imagined by readers until the
second half of this century.

The ancient Mahabharata, one of the sources on Vimanas, goes on to tell the awesome destructiveness of the war: "...(the weapon was) a
single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as the thousand suns rose in
all its splendor. An iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.
The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. The hair and nails fell out; pottery broke without apparent cause, and the birds turned
white.... after a few hours all foodstuffs were infected.... to escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves
and their equipment..."

It would seem that the Mahabharata is describing an atomic war! References like this one are not
isolated; but battles, using a fantastic array of weapons and aerial vehicles are common in all the
epic Indian books.

One even describes a Vimana-Vailixbattle on the Moon! The above section very accurately
describes what an atomic explosion would look like and the effects of the radioactivity on the
population. Jumping into water is the only respite. When the Rishi City of Mohenjodaro was
excavated by archaeologists in the last century, they found skeletons just lying in the streets,
some of them holding hands, as if some great doom had suddenly overtaken them. These
skeletons are among the most radioactive ever found, on a par with those found at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Ancient cities whose brick and stonewalls have literally been vitrified, that is-fused
together, can be found in India, Ireland, Scotland, France, Turkey and other places. There is no
logical explanation for the vitrification of stone forts and cities, except from an atomic blast.

Further more, at Mohenjo-Daro, a well planned city laid on a grid, with a plumbing system superior to those used in Pakistan and India today, the
streets were littered with "black lumps of glass." These globs of glass were discovered to be clay pots that had melted under intense heat! With
the cataclysmic sinking of Atlantis and the wiping out of Rama with atomic weapons, the world collapsed into a "stone age" of sorts, and modern
history picks up a few thousand years later Yet, it would seem that not all the Vimanas and Vailixi of Rama and Atlantis were gone. Built to last
for thousands of years, many of them would still be in use, as evidenced by Ashoka's "Nine Unknown Men" and the Lhasa manuscript.

That secret societies or "Brotherhoods" of exceptional, "enlightened" human beings would have preserved these inventions and
the knowledge of science, history, etc., does not seem surprising. Many well known historical personages including Jesus,
Buddah, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Krishna, Zoroaster, Mahavira, Quetzalcoatl, Akhenaton, Moses, and more recent inventors and of
course many other people who will probably remain anonymous, were probably members of such a secret organization. It is
interesting to note that when Alexander the Great invaded India more than two thousand years ago, his historians chronicled that
at one point they were attacked by "flying, fiery shields" that dove at his army and frightened the cavalry. These "flying saucers"
did not use any atomic bombs or beam weapons on Alexander's army however, perhaps out of benevolence, and Alexander went
on to conquer India. It has been suggested by many writers that these "Brotherhoods" keep some of their Vimanas and Vailixi in
secret caverns in Tibet or some other place is Central Asia, and the Lop Nor Desert in western China is known to be the center of
a great UFO mystery. Perhaps it is here that many of the airships are still kept, in underground bases much as the Americans, British and
Soviets have built around the world in the past few decades. Still, not all UFO activity can be accounted for by old Vimanas making trips to the
Moon for some reason. Unknown alloys have been revealed in the ancient palm leaf manuscripts.
The writer and Sanskrit scholar Subramanyam Iyer has spent many years of his life deciphering old collections of palm leaves found in the
villages of his native Karnataka in southern India. One of the palm leaf manuscripts they intend to decipher is the Amsu Bodhini, which,
according to an anonymous text of 1931, contains information about the planets; the different kinds of light, heat, color, and electromagnetic
fields; the methods used to construct machines capable of attracting solar rays and, in turn, of analysing and separating their energy
components; the possibility of conversing with people in remote places and sending messages by cable; and the manufacture of machines to
transport people to other planets!

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In one episode, for example, the Vrishnis, a tribe whose warriors include the hero Krishna, are beset by the forces of a leader named Salva.
" The cruel Salva had come mounted on the Saubha chariot that can go anywhere, and from it he killed many valiant Vrishni
youths and evilly devastated all city parks."

The Saubha is at once Salva's city, flagship, and battle headquarters. In it, he can fly wherever he
chooses. Fortunately, the Vrishni heroes are similarly well equipped, and at one point have Salva at their
mercy. The hero Pradyumna is about to finish him off with a special weapon, when the highest gods stop
him "Not a man in battle is safe from this arrow," they say, and declare that Salva will fall to Krishna.
Krishna took to the sky in pursuit of Salva, but his Saubha clung to the sky at a leagues length... He
threw at me rockets, missiles, spears, spikes, battleaxes, three-bladed javelins, flame-throwers, without
pausing... The sky... seemed to hold a hundred suns, a hundred moons... and a hundred myriad stars.
Neither day nor night could be made out, or the points of a compass.
Krishna, however, wards off Salva's attack with what sounds like antiballistic missiles; I warded them off
as they loomed towards me
With my swift-striking shafts, as they flashed through the sky, And i cut them into two or three pieces with
mine --
There was a great din in the sky above.
However, the Saubha becomes invisible. Krishna then loads a special weapon, perhaps an ancient
version of a smart bomb?;
I quickly laid on an arrow, which killed by seeking out sound, to kill them... All the Danavas
[Salva's troops] who had been screeching lay dead, killed by the blazing sun like arrows
that were triggered by sound.
However, the Sauba itself escaped the attack. Krishna fires his "favorite fire weapon" at it, a discus shaped like the "haloed sun". The discus
breaks the Saubha in two, and the city falls from the sky, killing Salva. This is the end of the Mahabharata.

One of the most intriguing thing about it is that the use of Pradyumna's
special arrow, from which "not a man in battle is safe", was outlawed by the
gods. What sort of weapon could this be? Another chapter, describing the
use of the Agneya weapon by the hero Adwattan. When the weapon, a
"blazing missile of smokeless fire" is unleashed;
Dense arrows of flame, like a great shower, issued forth upon
creation, encompassing the enemy... A thick gloom swiftly
settled upon the Pandava hosts. All points of the compass
were lost in darkness. Fierce winds began to blow. Clouds
roared upward, showering dust and gravel.
Birds coaked madly... the very elements seemed disturbed.
The sun seemed to waver in the heavens. The earth shook,
scorched by the terrible violent heat of this weapon. Elephants
burst into flame and ran to and fro in a frenzy... over a vast
area, other animals crumpled to the ground and died. From all
points of the compass the arrows of flame rained continuously
and fiercely.
And if that sounded like a firestorm, then a similar weapon fired by Gurkha
sounds like nothing less than a nuclear blast complete with radioactive
fallout;

Gurkha, flying in his swift and powerful Vimana, hurled against the three
cities of the Vrishnis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the
power of the universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as
brilliant as ten thousand suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown
weapon, the iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced
to ashes the entire race of Vrishnis and Andhakas.

The corpses were so burnt they were no longer recognizable. Hair and
nails fell out. Pottery broke without cause... Foodstuffs were
poisoned. To escape, the warriors threw themselves in streams to
wash themselves and their equipment.

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By David Hatcher Childress
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Nearly every Hindu and Buddhist in the world - hundreds of millions of people
has heard of the ancient flying machines referred to in the Ramayana and
other texts as vimanas. Vimanas are mentioned even today in standard Indian
literature and media reports. An article called “Flight Path” by the Indian
journalist Mukul Sharma appeared in the major newspaper The Times of
India on April 8, 1999 which talked about vimanas and ancient warfare:

According to some interpretations of surviving texts, India’s future it seems

happened way back in the past. Take the case of the Yantra Sarvasva, said to
have been written by the sage Maharshi Bhardwaj.

This consists of as many as 40 sections of which one, the Vaimanika

Prakarana dealing with aeronautics, has 8 chapters, a hundred topics and 500
sutras.
In it Bhardwaj describes vimana, or aerial aircrafts, as being of three classes:
1. those that travel from place to place;
2. those that travel from one country to another;
3. those that travel between planets.
Of special concern among these were the military planes whose functions
were delineated in some very considerable detail and which read today like
something clean out of science fiction. For instance, they had to be:
Impregnable, unbreakable, non-combustible and indestructible capable of coming to a dead stop in the twinkling of an eye; invisible to enemies;
capable of listening to the conversations and sounds in hostile planes; technically proficient to see and record things, persons, incidents and
situations going on inside enemy planes; know at every stage the direction of the movement of other aircraft in the vicinity; capable of rendering
the enemy crew into a state of suspended animation, intellectual torpor or complete loss of consciousness; capable of destruction; manned by
pilots and co-travelers who could adapt in accordance with the climate in which they moved; temperature regulated inside; constructed of very
light and heat absorbing metals; provided with mechanisms that could enlarge or reduce images and enhance or diminish sounds.

Notwithstanding the fact that such contraption would

resemble a cross between an American
state-of-the-art Stealth Fighter and a flying saucer,
does it mean that air and space travel was well
known to ancient Indians and aeroplanes flourished
in India when the rest of the world was just learning
the rudiments of agriculture? Aerial battles and
chases are common in ancient Hindu literature.

What did these airships look like? The ancient

Mahabharata speaks of a vimana as “an aerial
chariot with the sides of iron and clad with wings.”
The Ramayana describes a vimana as a
double-deck, circular (cylindrical) aircraft with
portholes and a dome. It flew with the “ speed of the
wind”, and gave forth a “melodious sound”
The ancient Indians themselves wrote entire flight
manuals on the care and control of various types of
vimanas. The Samara Sutradhara is a scientific
treatises dealing with every possible facet of air
travel in a vimana. There are 230 stanzas dealing
with construction, take-off, cruising for thousands of
miles, normal and forced landings, and even
possible collusions with birds!
Would these texts exist (they do) without there being something to actually write about? Traditional historians and archaeologists simply ignore
such writings as the imaginative ramblings of a bunch of stoned, ancient writers.
Says Andrew Tomas, " The Samara Sutradhara, which is a factual type of record, treats air travel from every angle…If this is the
science fiction of antiquity, then it is the best that has ever been written.”

In 1875, the Vaimanika Shastra, a fourth century BC text written by Maharshi Bhardwaj, was discovered in a temple in India. The book dealt
with the operation of ancient vimanas and included information on steering, precautions for long flights, protection of the airships from storms
and lightning, and how to switch the drive to solar energy, or some other “free energy” source, possibly some sort of “gravity drive.” Vimanas
were said to take off vertically or dirigible. Bharadwaj the Wise refers to no less than 70 authorities and 10 experts of air travel in antiquity. These
sources are now lost.
Vimanas were kept in Vimana Griha, or hanger, were said to be propelled by a yellowish-white-liquid, and were used for various purposes.
Airships were present all over the world. The plain of Nazca in Peru is very famous for appearing from the high altitude to be a rather elaborate,
if confusing airfield. Some researchers have theorized that this was some sort of Atlantean outpost. It is worth nothing that Rama Empire had its
outposts: Easter Island, almost diametrically opposite to Mohenjo-daro on the globe, astonishingly developed its own written language, an
obscure script lost to the present inhabitants, but found on tablets and other carvings. This odd script is found in only one other place in the
world: Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa.
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The ancient Indian epics go into considerable detail about aerial warfare over 10,000 years ago. So much detail that a famous Oxford professor
included a chapter on the subject in a book on ancient warfare!

According to the Sanskrit scholar V.R.Ramachandran Dikshitar, the Oxford Professor who
wrote “War in Ancient India in 1944, “ No question can be more interesting in the present
circumstances of the world than India’s contribution to the science of aeronautics. There are
numerous illustrations in our vast Puranic and epic literature to show how well and wonderfully
the ancient Indians conquered the air. To glibly characterized everything found in this literature
as imaginary and summarily dismiss it as unreal has been the practice of both Western and
Eastern scholars until very recently. The very idea indeed was ridiculed and people went so far
as to assert that it was physically impossible for man to use flying machines. But today what
with balloons, aeroplanes and other flying machines, a great change has come over our ideas
on the subject.”
Says Dr. Dikshitar, “ …the flying vimana of Rama or Ravana was set down as but a dream of
the mythographer till aeroplanes and zeppelins of the present century saw the light of day. The
mohanastra or the “arrow of unconsciousness” of old was until very recently a creature of
legend till we heard the other day of bombs discharging Poisonous gases. We owe much to
the energetic scientists and researchers who plod persistently and carry their torches deep
down into the caves and excavations of old and dig out valid testimonials pointing to the misty
antiquity of the wonderful creations of humanity.”
Dikshitar mentions that in Vedic literature, in one of the Brahmanas, occurs the concept of a
ship that sails heavenwards. “The ship is the Agniliotra of which the Ahavaniya and Garhapatya
fires represent the two sides bound heavenward, and the steersman is the Agnihotrin who
offers milk to the three Agnis. Again, in the still earlier Rg Veda Samhita we read that the
Asvins conveyed the rescued Bhujya safely by means of winged ships. The latter may refer to
the aerial navigation in the earliest times.”
Commenting on the famous vimana text the Vimanika Shastra, he says:
“ In the recently published Samarangana Sutradhara of Bhoja, a whole chapter of about 230 stanzas is devoted to the principles of construction
underlying the various flying machines and other engines used for military and other purposes. The various advantages of using machines,
especially flying ones, are given elaborately. Special mention is made for their attacking visible as well as invisible objects, of their use at one’s
will and pleasure, of their uninterrupted movements, of their strength and durability, in short of their capability to do in the air all that is done on
earth. After enumerating and explaining a number of other advantages, the author concludes that even impossible things could be effected
through them. Three movements are usually ascribed to these machines, ascending, cruising, thousands of miles in the atmosphere and lastly
descending. It is said that in an aerial car one can mount to the Surya-mandala, travel throughout the regions of air above the sea and the earth.
These cars are said to move so fast as to make a noise that could be heard faintly from the ground. Still some writers have expressed a doubt
and asked “Was that true?” But the evidence in its favor is overwhelming.
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Flying machines in old Indian Sanskrit texts

By Professor Dr. Dileep Kumar Kanjilal gave a brilliant lecture with this title to the Sixth Congress of the Ancient Astronaut Society in
Munich in 1979. Kanjilal is a professor at the Calcutta Sanskrit College and therefore a leading scholar in Sanskrit.
(source: Pathways To The Gods: The Stones of Kiribati - By Erich Von Daniken p. 179-187).
But if we follow the history of idolatry in India we come across two important works, the Kausitaki and the Satapatha Brahmana,
dating from before 500 B.C. and telling us about images of the gods. Text and illustration show forcefully that the gods were originally
corporeal beings. But how, and this question must be faced, did these gods reach the earth through the atmosphere?
The Yujurveda quite clearly tells of a flying machine, which was used by the Asvins
(two heavenly twins). The Vimana is simply a synonym for flying machine. It occurs in
the Yajurveda, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata Purana, as well as in
classical Indian literature.
At least 20 passages in the Rigveda (1028 hymns to the gods) refer exclusively to the
flying vehicle of the Asvins. This flying machine is represented as three-storeyed,
triangular and three –wheeled. It could carry at least three passengers. According to
tradition the machine was made of gold, silver and iron, and had two wings. With this
flying machine the Asvins saved King Bhujyu who was in distress at sea.
Every scholar knows the Vaimanika Shastra, a collection of sketches the core of which
is attributed to Bharatvaj the Wise around the 4th century B.C. The writings in the
Vaimanika Shastra were rediscovered in 1875. The text deals with the size and the most
important parts of the various flying machines. We learn how they steered, what special
precautions had to be taken on long flights, how the machines could be protected against
violent storms and lightning, how to make a forced landing and even how to switch the
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antiquity!
The description of these machines in old Indian texts are amazingly precise. The difficulty we are faced with today is basically that the
texts mention various metals and alloys which we cannot translate. We do not know what our ancestors understood by them. In the
Amarangasutradhara five flying machines were originally built for the gods Brahma, Vishnu, Yama, Kuvera and Indra. Later there
were some additions. Four main types of flying Vimanas are described: Rukma, Sundara, Tripura and Sakuna. The Rukma were conical
in shape and dyed gold, whereas the Sundata were like rockets and had a silver sheen. The Tripura were three-storeyed and the Sakuna
looked like birds. There were 113 subdivisions of these four main types that differed only in minor details. The position and functioning
of the solar energy collectors are described in the Vaimanika Shastra. It says that eight tubes had to be made of special glass absorbing
the sun’s ray. A whole series of details are listed, some of which we do not understand. The Amaranganasutradhara even explains the
drive, the controls and the fuel for the flying machine. It says that quicksilver and ‘Rasa’ were used. Unfortunately we do not yet know
what “Rasa’ was. Ten sections deal with uncannily topical themes such as pilot training, flight paths, the individual parts of flying
machines, as well as clothing for pilots and passengers, and the food recommended for long flights. There was much technical detail: the
metals used, heat-absorbing metals and their melting point, the propulsion units and various types of flying machines. The information
about metals used in construction name three sorts, somala, soundaalika and mourthwika. If they were mixed in the right proportions,
the result was 16 kinds of heat-absorbing metals with names like ushnambhara, ushnapaa, raajaamlatrit, etc. which cannot be translated
into English. The texts also explained how to clean metals, the acids such as lemon or apple to be used and the correct mixture, the right
oils to work with and the correct temperature for them. Seven types of engine are described with the special functions for which they are
suited and the altitudes at which they work best. The catalogue is not short of data about the size of the machines, which had storeys, nor
of their suitability for various purposes.

This text is recommended to all who doubt the existence of flying machines in antiquity. The mindless cry that there were no such things
would have to fall silent in shame.
The ruined sites of Parhaspur have been the scene of ‘divine’ air
battles? Pyramids reminiscent of the Mayan pyramids in the Central
American jungles in the center of Parhaspur.
In 1979 a book by David W. Davenport, an Englishman born in India, was
published in Italy. Its title was 2000 AC Diztruzione Atomica, Atomic
Destruction 2000. BC. Davenport claimed to have proof that Mohenjo
Daro, one of the oldest cities in the history of human civilization, had been
destroyed by an atomic bomb. Davenport shows that the ruined site known
as the place of death by archaeologists was not formed by gradual decay.
Originally Mohenjo Daro, which is more than 5000 years old, lay on two
islands in the Indus. Within a radius of 1.5 km Davenport demonstrates
three different degrees of devastation which spread from the center
outwards. Enormous heat unleashed total destruction at the center.
Thousands of lumps, christened ‘black stones’ by archaeologists, turned out
to be fragments of clay vessels which had melted into each other in the
extreme heat. The possibility of a volcanic eruption is excluded because
there is no hardened lava or volcanic ash in or near Mohenjo Daro. Davenport assumed that the brief intensive heat reached 2000 degree
C. It made the ceramic vessels melt.
He further says that in the suburbs of Mohenjo Daro skeletons of people lying flat on the ground, often hand in hand were found, as if
the living had been suddenly overcome by an unexpected catastrophe.
In spite of the interdisciplinary possibilities, archaeology works solely by traditional methods in Mohenjo Daro. They ought to use the
former, for it would produce results. If flying machines and a nuclear explosion as the cause of the ruins are excluded out of hand, there
can be no research by enlarged teams with physicists, chemists, metallurgists, etc. As the iron curtain so often falls on sites that are
important in the history of mankind, I cannot help feeling that surprising facts endangering existing ways of thinking might and
should be discovered. A nuclear explosion 5000 years ago does not fit into the scenario?
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Charles Berlitz, who is not perhaps the most scholarly of authors, in his book "Doomsday 1999"
cites Robert Oppenheimer (of the Manhattan Project) as answering an inquiry from a student at
Rochester University thus:

Student: Was the bomb exploded at Alamogordo during the Manhattan Project the first one to be
detonated?

Dr. Oppenheimer: "Well -- yes. In modern times, of course.

"Berlitz goes on to quote a number of passages from the Mahabharata that describe the impact of a
weapon that I suspect must be the brahmaastra, although he neither names the weapon nor cites
those sections of the text from which his quotations are drawn (he lists Protap Chandra Roy's
translation of 1889 in his bibliography):...a single projectile Charged with all the power of the
Universe.
An incandescent column of smoke and flame As bright as ten thousand Suns Rose in all its
splendor......it was an unknown weapon, An iron thunderbolt, A gigantic messenger of death, Which
reduced to ashes. The Entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas....the corpses were so burned
As to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out; Pottery broke without apparent cause, And
the birds turned white. After a few hours all foodstuffs were infected......To escape from this fire.
The soldiers threw themselves in streams to wash themselves and their equipment...

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The Discovery of Dwaraka

Discovered in 1981, the well-fortified township of Dwarka extended more than half a mile from the shore and was built
in six sectors along the banks of a river before it became submerged.

The findings are of immense cultural and religious importance to India. Among the objects unearthed that proved
Dwarka's connection with the Mahabharata epic was a sea engraved with the image of a three-headed animal. The
epic mentions such a seal given to the citizens of Dwarka as a proof of identity when the city was threatened by King
Jarasandha of the powerful Magadh kingdom (now Bihar). The foundation of boulders on which the city's walls were
erected proves that the land was reclaimed from the sea about 3,600 years ago. The epic has references to such
reclamation activity at Dwarka. Seven islands mentioned in it were also discovered submerged in the Arabian Sea.
Why is that the rediscovery of Dwaraka has not attracted the same degree of attention in the West, as that of ancient
Troy by Heinrich Schliemann?

( Note: Please refer to Chapter on Dwaraka for more information.)

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